make sure you have FTP/SFTP access to your webserver. you need to know your login and password for that webserver, its address (most often the address of your website) and the URL. make sure PHP5 is available for you.

unzip the archive. there will be a directory called 'hotglue' which contains all necessary files.

copy the 'hotglue' directory (or the git tree) to your webserver (you can also place HOTGLUE directly into 'document root').

make sure the webserver can write to the ./content directory and all contained files, i.e. recursively change permissions of ./content directory in the HOTGLUE installation to 777 (right-click on ./content directory that you just uploaded to your server, look for 'permissions' menu, set 'read-write' for everyone).

it is recommended that you create a ./user-config.inc.php file where you can overwrite the settings defined in ./config.inc.php. the former file won't get overwritten by future updates.

make sure that you change @define('AUTH_PASSWORD', 'changeme'); to a non-default value (in either ./user-config.inc.php or ./config.inc.php).

(optional) if your hosting environment allows you to use mod_rewrite and you want to use short URLs for your pages (without question marks - '?') you can rename the htaccess-dist file to .htaccess (with a leading dot, e.g. by running mv htaccess-dist .htaccess).

if php is not installed as a module to apache (mod_php), but rather installed as (Fast-)CGI binary, installing the .htaccess file is mandatory (see known issues section in README file).

SUPER SHORT 'HOW-TO HOTGLUE':single click on the canvas - to create a block or upload file.double click - change properties of the page, delete or create a new one click on the object - change object's properties.

Please stop recommending FileZilla, after years of storing passwords in plain text, and the recent 'phoning home' with God knows what and on top of that the hosting on SourceForge WITH included adware, it is time to look for alternatives. The good old winscp is a good contender and a low level, easy to learn program. For the Mac users we have Cyberduck, which is more easy to follow than FileZilla as well.Besides that, I love HotGLUE